'Understand' in the Bible

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:You will listen and listen,yet never understand;and you will look and look,yet never perceive.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heartsand turn back—and I would cure them.

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

Summoning the crowd, He told them, “Listen and understand:

Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected?

Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”

“So when you see the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand),

so thatthey may look and look,yet not perceive;they may listen and listen,yet not understand;otherwise, they might turn back—and be forgiven.”

Then He said to them: “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables?

He would speak the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand.

Summoning the crowd again, He told them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:

Aware of this, He said to them, “Why are you discussing that you do not have any bread? Don’t you understand or comprehend? Is your heart hardened?

And He said to them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

“When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it should not” (let the reader understand), “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!

But he denied it: “I don’t know or understand what you’re talking about!” Then he went out to the entryway, and a rooster crowed.

But they did not understand what He said to them.

So He said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so thatLooking they may not see,and hearing they may not understand.

But they did not understand this statement; it was concealed from them so that they could not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

He has blinded their eyesand hardened their hearts,so that they would not see with their eyesor understand with their hearts,and be converted,and I would heal them.

Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

For they still did not understand the Scripture that He must rise from the dead.

He assumed his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Then Peter began to speak: “Now I really understand that God doesn’t show favoritism,

when He said,Go to these people and say:You will listen and listen,yet never understand;and you will look and look,yet never perceive.

For the hearts of these peoplehave grown callous,their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heart,and be converted,and I would heal them.

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said:I will make you jealousof those who are not a nation;I will make you angry by a nationthat lacks understanding.

but, as it is written:Those who were not told about Him will see,and those who have not heard will understand.

If I have the gift of prophecyand understand all mysteriesand all knowledge,and if I have all faithso that I can move mountainsbut do not have love, I am nothing.

Now we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely—

then understand that those who have faith are Abraham’s sons.

By reading this you are able to understand my insight about the mystery of the Messiah.

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on.

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by God’s command, so that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible.

My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.